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AN OPEN LETTER: DR. ALBERT MOHLER YOU APPEAR TO BE THE WORST KIND OF RACIST.

ALBERT MOHLER IS “STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS OF HIS OWN RACIAL CRISIS”.

WHILE BURNING US CITY STREETS STRUGGLE TO DEAL WITH RACE -THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY HAS BECOME A DUMPSTER OF ROTTING CRITICAL THEORIES POISONING THE GOSPEL AND CHRISTIANS ABILITY TO STAND IN THE GAP.

The worst kind of Racist is the person who would play BOTH sides of the race issue. They would play the race card easily and often. The worst kind of racist would, from a place of power and authority, hire minorities in order to use them and fire minorities who do not agree or comply with them. This kind of racist would always be pointing to the faults of others while hiding their own guilt. They would train an army or accusers and race baiters and send them out into the field to point fingers and accuse.  This kind of racist would employ all the fine arts of the social sciences like Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality and psychology to empower themselves and control subordinates while effecting “social change” on race and related “human rights” concerns for possible political and financial gain while promoting themselves to ever deepening realms of power in order to force more of the same. The worst kind of racist mocks real issues of race while never missing the chance to posture themselves to  appear as the messiah with all the answers. And lastly, the worst kind of racist would EVEN use and BASTARDIZE the everlasting Gospel, using Jesus, to further and achieve his /her end. I think from the words , duplicity and actions of Albert Mohler chronicled below most readers will agree that Albert Mohler ,President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for the last 27 years , and current presumed  candidate for the Presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention – appears to be THAT WORST KIND OF RACIST.

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                                 5/28/2020

As the videos of the slaying of a black man in Georgia by an alleged  neighborhood watch gone murder and the brutal killing of a black man in Minneapolis by police who give all law enforcement a bad name- protest, riots,  looting… racial tensions are running high in America. The George Soro’s funded( a reported $84 million by 2019) Black Lives Matter have moved in to fan the flames again.

Christians in general and Baptist in particular find themselves in the midst of their own “racial crisis” of which you Dr.Albert Mohler have made yourself a central figure. Thus this open letter is addressed to you. We recall you had and may still harbor plans to run for the president of the SBC in the 2020 annual meetings (now canceled by Covid-19) in Orlando. So you have put yourself out there in the realm of denominational politics. Now would be a good time to address reality – your reality -to Southern Baptist. A public sit down and response to the glaring duplicity and confusing messages and actions BY you would be MOST WELCOMED. Baptist DESERVE TO KNOW  where you really stand and who, among the confusing roles you play in SBC life, is the real Albert Mohler.

(Note : This writer has reached out to Dr. Mohler and some of his key disciples /voices like Russell Moore  in the past related to the LGBTQ movement and other educational and troublesome cultural topics on which his and their narratives are getting it desperately wrong. Now these wrong headed approaches to race, homosexuality, human rights, cultural engagement for the church etc. are manifesting themselves and their harmful, crippling effects on the church ability to be the agent of redemption in some of America’s most desperate days since the 60’s. These things have not only developed on Albert Mohler’s watch but now he stands at the crossroads of the crisis he helped create in the church attempting to offer insight and answers to the very problems he and his neo-reformed movement and TGC partners helped to create. Below are simple facts, details, and questions in this open letter which chronicle the problem and display Albert Mohler’s disturbing duplicity in these and related matters.)

DR. MOHLER WE HEAR YOU …A LOT AND OFTEN… BUT YOU SELDOM SAY ANYTHING CLEARLY AS YOU SPEAK IN DIZZYING CIRCULAR JARGON .

Dr. Mohler listening to you in an attempt to understand your position on any important, swirling cultural issue is akin to trying to file papers in a hurricane. It is exhausting to say the least and an exercise in frustration to separate what you say from what you mean and what you do.  Here are some of the problems you have contributed to and now seem to think you can provide answers FOR.

THE PRESENT DISTRESS :AMERICA BURNS WHILE MOHLER SPEAKS

Current energy which lead to push back like the Dallas Statement with concerns over false justice gospel, accusations of White Privilege and that Baptist “worshiping  Jim Crow as Jesus ” came from this little jewel below.

MLK50 Conference

Your own long time disciple Russell Moore and his ERLC, along with The Gospel Colaition led by you and friends from the equally troubles PCA denomination spawned this little race baiting extravaganza. You can’t do this stuff and then not be assigned responsibility for the inability of the church to truly be a redemptive force when it is needed like NOW. Christians cannot presently cut through the flood of Critical Theory and polarizing activist dialog to clearly preach the racially transcending Gospel. Dr. Mohler you are smart of enough to perceive this reality. The church has been as polarized as the culture at large over race by your assembled rhetoric which bears no distention from the racial activism, prejudice and politics of the adrift secular leadership.

RECENT SBC HISTORY ON RACE

THE SBC RIDS “RACISM” IN 2015 & SBTS BIG RACISM PURGE IN 2018

In this article I point  out the method you often employ which then prove your duplicity. For example – the SBTS  report aimed at purging SBTS of racism points to historical figures connected to SBTS who were slave owners and racist. One of the WORST of those is former GEORGIA Governor, Senator and later Federal Judge- Joseph Emerson Brown. Brown “saved SBTS “after the war by a large donation for which a theological chair is named. Dr.Mohler you sit on that JEB Chair and do not address that in the report.

http://www.bpnews.net/20683/southern-trustees-elect-mohler-to-storied-chair-of-theology

How much does occupying that chair pay you in addition to your regular presidents salary and expense account? Why not change it’s name? Why hide the fact you sit on that chair in the report and elsewhere until asked point blank by a student in one of your “ask Me Anything ” events?

THE GLARING RACIAL HYPOCRISY OF AL MOHLER AND RUSSELL MOORE

THE SBC RID-EX TEAM “MOHLER and the STAIN MASTERS “

Southern Baptist Convention must grapple with its racist legacy, say SBTS leaders at SBC panel

“The panel, which was hosted at the SBC Cooperative Program stage, featured R. Albert Mohler Jr., Kevin Jones, Matthew J. Hall, and Curtis Woods. The panel was moderated by Jarvis J. Williams, associate professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Seminary.” ( NOTE the Stain Master players are the same SBTS staffers connected to the CRT and accusations of White Privilege,The Resolutions Committee 2019,the  “SBTS Report” and overt accusations of “ongoing Racism in the SBC”.)

I wrote about this ongoing “racial purge “effort  several times after seeing you the CP Stage in Dallas annual meeting. In pats of the panel discussion you seemed dazed and confused and not really up to speed with the “conversation” but still “went along” with it. The MLK/50  ERLC event had just happened weeks before and the controversial Dallas Statement was in the works, according to your friend Tom Ascol of Founders Ministries. The tensions giving birth to Dallas Statement were brewing as you sat on the stage with young men you have trained who are expert in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other “tools” of Critical Theory for a chat on the book “Removing the Stain of Racism from the SBC.” These men you employ were presented as  New Testament Scholars trained by SBTS.

CRT REARS IT’S UGLY HEAD

Only one mention of CRT  was made in that 2018 presentation in CP Stage discussion of  the “Stain Master” book published in 2015. BUT by 2019, at SBC Birmingham (with the perfect racial history backdrop) a year later, one of these same men was serving on the SBC Resolutions Committee which rewrote a Resolution (number 9)  condemning CRT and Intersectionality into a resolution PROMOTING  the use of CRT and Intersectionality as useful tools with the Gospel.

CONFUSED BAPTIST VOTED RESOLUTION 9 INTO SBC AT BIRMINGHAM

What a street hustle this effort appears to. None of the Resolutions status and topics were not published in final form until the morning  of the vote unlike normal fashion on the afternoon of the day before. Why is it that you and an SBTS operative(s) from the Dallas meetings also serving on the Resolutions committee a year later did not have  a year long discussion of CRT and Intersectionality  leading up to the Resolution 9. Why was it sprung on a largely unsuspecting group of Baptist messengers who were called on to vote on two explosive topics which most did not understand?

http://www.sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc19/resolutions

How many messengers at SBC 2019 could articulate a definition of CRT and Intersectionality? Not many! I can provide documentation that men in Baptist ministry educated at our seminaries were not able to articulate what these two “Tools ” were. This looks like a Nancy Pelosi Hustle through of problematic legislation and you via your SBTS operatives were part of it.

Anything honest to say in response to this? How long was Resolution 9 in the works? Better yet ,how long have these “tools” been taught and in use at SBTS? Why were they part of the 2015 project book mentioned above which launched your current racism purge?

FRIENDS DEVER AND ASCOL INTERVIEW CHRONICLE HISTORY OF LIBERALISM TO CONSERVATISM.BUT WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

https://founders.org/author/mark-dever/

In this 2017 Founders interview Mark Dever talks about your friendship as young men with your fellow Reformed resurgence friend Tom Ascol. Mark mentions your history and liberal leanings during undergrad here again in my city at Samford University. He explains your seemingly sudden switch to sounding like a classic conservative at the Georgia Index as editor after ,just  a few years earlier your were a troubling young liberal. Friend Mark Dever of 9 MARKS points out that you had altered suddenly in your views and that your “liberal friends felt betrayed and that you had switched sides “, basically to “advance”your career. Mark assures viewers you had truly been “changed”.

Problem is Dr. Mohler that the current issues at SBTS and in the SBC of which you are a part have conservative Baptist now asking the same question in REVERSE. Still some, jokingly and not , contend you are following the direction of the weather vane above SBTS campus and going which ever way the wind blows. Can you please tell us which is the Real Albert Mohler?

WHAT IS UNDER THE COVERS?

Recently a number of  investigative  projects  have uncovered some of the “problems ” with your own racial history, purges at Baptist institutions including SBTS and actions of your long time associates from your inner circle .

HERE ARE A FEW YOU CAN SPEAK TO DR.MOHLER

http://bobbylopez.me/2020/05/my-glimpse-of-the-sbcs-race-machine/?

Dr Robert Oscar Lopez is a former professor from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary SWBTS near Dallas TX. He was fired last year by your recently installed leadership from THE  inner circle at SBTS who now lead SWBTS. Here is more on his story proving your guys sent to SWBTS conducted NOT  a purge of racism but a purge or RACIAL MINORITIES  whose positions and convictions were in opposition to yours or with whom you disagreed in some fashion.

The Dr.Lopez Story has many dimensions including the fact Dr.Lopez is a former homosexual saved out of gay culture and stands firmly against you and Russell Moore who both have bowed the knee of SBC leadership to the false assertions of “Sexual Orientation” propagandized by the APA. Dr Lopez Christian testimony does not fit your. Russell Moore/ ERLC/SBTS (where Revoice was spawned ) narrative on human Sexuality.

Your new SWBTS leaders Randy Stinson and Adam Greenway  repeatedly threatened,  targeted and attempted to silence the Christian witness of Dr.Lopez and exert absolute censorship and editing rights to his writings  and interviews. This is despite Lopez Ivy education and credentials and expertise in multiculturalism and Latin culture and ministry history. Apparently Dr.Lopez did not fit your template for SWBTS future. Results at SWBTS is that almost all of the Minority professors were FIRED in several waves of your SBTS trained leaders purge.

None of the issues related to the Lopez and other two dozen plus firings  bode well for your own assertions that you are the person actually leading a purge of racism from the SBC and it’s institutions.

The kinds of slanderous accusations and abusive tactics used by Randy Stinson formerly of SBTS and by Adam Greenway in the Lopez case for one -are documented on recordings and the story was picked up by secular education press last year.

Care to respond honestly  no circular double talk? these are your guys who did this right? Approve of what they did and how they did it?

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/11/professor-who-sought-refuge-liberal-academe-southern-baptist-seminary-finds-out-why

(NOTE -The title accuses Dr.Lopez of being ” anti gay ” when in fact his stance is to defend to ability of the church to offer counseling against homosexuality and fixed and unchanging . Lopez and thousands of other Believers have experienced the power of the Gospel to change their desires and are married with children and normal heterosexual lives. Mohler and underlings like Russell Moore in 2014 disowned the power of the Gospel to change homosexual desires and tossed out so called Reparative therapies in favor of the APA false assertions of”unchanging sexual orientation from birth. Mohler led the way on the SBC shift to this false gospel position. Mohler’ “explains” his controversial and horrific position shift in orientation here. https://albertmohler.com/2014/11/13/sexual-orientation-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ )

More press on the Lopez Firing at SWBTS

Ex-gay professor fired from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

NDA /GAG ORDERS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH?

Dr.Mohler, interestingly Non Disclosure Agreements NDAs have become a hot topic with your leadership style at SBTS and the SBC in general. The 2019 Resolutions Committee chaired by one of your 2018 Dallas panel and SBTS CRT experts was canned in the 2019 Resolutions committee and never saw the light of day. The resolution on whistle blower protections (something the government and corporate worlds  embraced years ago.) and NDAs was written by guess who?  Dr.Robert Oscar Lopez  who your SBTS man Stinson FIRED. HMMM – something really smelly about that Dr. Mohler.

 

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER VICTIM OF SBC SEMINARY FIRINGS

Recently three videos were published interviewing former SBTS Hebrew Professor Russell Fuller who was also FIRED  but this time from SBTS along with 3 other professors.

Dr. Fuller was employed by you at SBTs for many years. He was recently among 4 people  fired. There are three detailed interviews with Dr.Fuller who is being interviewed by a recent SEBTS graduate Jon Harris. Harris came forward with concerns about the liberalization /social justice, CRT and even James Cone , Black Liberation Theology being taught at SEBTS where your former SBTS VP Danny Akin is now President ( some questions on Danny Akin and his sons later ).

Dr. Mohler ,why was Dr.Fuller fired? Why was he pressed to sign a NDA? Why does SBTS require NDAs? Will you speak to the specifics detailed about CRT and other disturbing issues at SBTS brought forward by Dr.Fuller? What, in your view, is he saying that is not correct and please provide proof that Dr.Fuller is not correct or is not being honest.

THE SPECK AND THE LOG IN YOUR EYE?

Dr Mohler I note that the interviewer Jon Harris has come under attack by SBTS employees like Professor Jim Hamilton and pro CRT and Intersectionality bloggers connected to a group of Apologist from J.D.Greear’s Summit Church .  Harris ties to Confederate organizations and pro South / pro states rights writings LIKELY  make Harris an easy target for discrediting as representing Alt Right opposition  to your upstanding efforts to “rid SBTS and SBC of RACISM. However there are some glaring logs in your own eyes. Especially over the kind of duplicity and operating on both sides of the issue.

Dr.Mohler. How can you “play the race card over and over in the SBC..train a generation of your “race accusers”and “white privilege crisis actors” all the while you are firing minorities and leading the wielding of disgusting use of CRT and tools of the racist trade?

GET REAL-WE ARE NOT THAT STUPID.

Interesting to note in light of this – that Harris ties to Confederate organizations , something problematic for even many Southerners, is in the open and he openly discusses it- while your own ties to the Joseph Emerson Brown legacy and Theological Chair which you occupy are HIDDEN in your SBTS purge.

So who is being open and honest about where they stand on racial issue? You who hides the JEBrown ties or a young Southern heritage celebrant like Harris?

How can you send your employees out to discredit someone who is open about things you conceal ?

In good faith how can your current employees engage in attacking others while their  own fellow professors are being FIRED with particular focus to target minority professors as in the case of Greenway and Stinson who were sent from SBTS to SWBTS to take over that institution?

Dr. Mohler your duplicity is suffocating.

 

How is it, given all these realities and more, that you think to have any platform from which to speak to any race issue with integrity?

HERE ARE THE FULLER INTERVIEWS AND THE SBTS RESPONSE /NOT A RESPONSE INTERVIEWS WITH THE VERY PROFESSORS DISCUSSED IN THE DR.FULLER INTERVIEWS. 

 

 

Downgrade at Southern Seminary: Critical Theory & Al Mohler (Part III)

“Dr. Russell Fuller talks about the effect of Jarvis Williams and Matthew Hall’s teachings on students, as well as Al Mohler’s reaction to them”

QUESTION?

Dr. Mohler , isn’t it odd that Jarvis Williams and Matt Hall were BOTH part of your 2015 SBTS project to “Remove the Stain of Racism ..” and your 2018 CP Stage production . Note they are both part of the discussion here in part three of three interviews with your recently fired  Dr.Fuller

SBTS PROFS SENT OUT TO PROPAGANDIZE AWAY YOUR SCANDAL

So Dr.Mohler these second set of videos have nothing to do with Fuller interviews? Right? …Yeah Right.

Dr.Mohler this series of propaganda interviews doing obvious PR for SBTS in response to the Fuller Interviews are shameless, dishonest, and making matters worse- if that is possible. CLEARLY  these videos are Shameless PR that interviews the professors exposed in the Fuller interviews BUT does not mention the Fuller exposure nor do the address the facts exposed by Dr. Fuller taking place at SBTS. Do you really think no one will notice?

You are rolling out two minority professors including Williams who is one of your CRT/ Intersectionality advocates from the 2015 “Stain Masters” as if to project your own inclusive culture at SBTS while having conducted a purge of minority professors  at SWBTS through your long time SBTS leaders sent to SWBTS.Is this what is happening here?

THE SBTS INTERVIEWS 

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1- Dr. Jim Hamilton, SBTS Professor of Biblical Theology, sits down for an interview with Dr. Dominick S. Hernández, Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation.
2- Dr. Robert Plummer, SBTS Professor of Biblical Studies, sits down for an interview with Dr. Jonathan T. Pennington, Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation.
4-Dr. Thomas Schreiner, James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation and a professor of biblical theology at Southern Seminary, sits down for an interview with Dr. Jarvis Williams, Associate Professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Seminary.”

MORE ON SBTS AND JARVIS WILLIAMS

Williams was trained at SBTS and was then hired by you to teach there in 2014 .

Williams is a close associate of Curtis Woods, both part of your 2018 CP Stage presentation  on the “Stain of Racism” where CRT was quietly mentioned and accepted into the conversation.  Curtis Woods was on and headed the 2019 Resolutions Committee which altered a Resolution (9) condemning CRT and Intersectionality into an Affirmation of them in the SBC.

http://www.bpnews.net/52308/committee-on-resolutions-named-for-2019-sbc

Williams does indeed use racist accusations and CRT in his teaching and presentations and unlike his gentle appearance in the SBTS video mentioned above- prefers to point bony fingers at Baptist ,especially young  students ,a command them “Dont you dare say you are for racial reconciliation until…” you comply with his wild and random accusations based on CRTs assumptions of “systemic racism “.

See video of Jarvis Williams and Kevin Jones at Oklahoma Baptist University ..CHAPEL…yes this disgusting exercise in CRT accusation was in the Chapel service.

“Dr. Kevin Jones, associate dean of academic innovation and assistant professor of teacher education at Boyce College, and Dr. Jarvis Williams, associate professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Seminary, delivered the chapel message Wednesday, Feb. 14, at Oklahoma Baptist University. Jones and Williams joined together in a discussion on racial unity and the stain of white supremacy. The service was held in Raley Chapel’s Potter Auditorium on OBU’s campus in Shawnee.”

 

Which one is the real Jarvis? The nice guy in the SBTS propaganda video interview or the rabidly controlled anger — ranting accuser- pointing fingers at minute 12 in this chapel video in Oklahoma? Javis Williams clearly applies the assumptions of institutional “systemic racism” which CRT asserts. To what end? To guilt the young students in this Baptist school into admitting their racism because they are white. Baptist parents need to stop sending there children to be indoctrinated and accused at SBC institutions of higher education. Pretty simple Dr.Mohler then you will be out of a job.

JARVIS WILLIAMS APPROVES OF REVOICE FOUNDER AND GENDER//FEMININE/ QUEER THEORY ? RIGHT DR. MOHLER?

Dr.Mohler -Jarvis Williams over saw the dissertation of Revoice founder Nate Collins in 2016 at SBTS.

https://independent.academia.edu/NateCollins3/CurriculumVitae

https://repository.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/5716/Collins_sbts_0207D_10474.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

More details here of Revoice and Collins SBTS training

REVOICE FOUNDER’S SBTS CRITICAL THEORY DISSERTATION:TGC TIES PART 2

SBTS APPROVAL BY THESE THREE PROFESSORS WHO OVERSAW COLLINS DISSERTATION.

Three SBTS professors mentored Collins work on his dissertation .

Thomas R. Schreiner (Chair)
__________________________________________
Jarvis J. Williams
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Gregg R. Allison

Jarvis approved and mentored Collins through his pro LGBTQ Christianity dissertation which asserts :

Jarvis Williams approved a dissertation in process and for completion which openly uses Critical ,Gender, Feminine and Queer Theories to make the case for “LGBT+ Thriving in Historic Christian Tradition “.  Collins work and book and previous writings at SBTS were overseen by Jarvis Williams and two other SBTS professors . Collins book “All But Invisible” advocating for more higher LGBT+ Christian visibility in conservative Christianity was written while COLLINS was TEACHING NEW TESTAMENT  at SBTS .

Dr. Mohler after months of doublespeak by your underlings from SBTS and Boyce like Denny Burk of CBM&W kept telling us to “Wait and see”what Revoice would bring to the conversation on LGBTQ in the church.

This is open ridicule of concerned Baptist over Revoice since your employee Burk (also in these most recent propaganda interviews for SBTS) presented papers WITH Nate Collins and an SBTS team of “scholars” at ETS as far back at 2013 .

Reality is Revoice was launched at SBTS. This was despite its open advocacy in advance for LGBT+ Thriving in the church ( from original Revoice missions statement) and for inclusion of ” LGBTQ and Queer Christians” in the church.(from Revoice first year break out sessions /topics)

REVOICE LGBT+ ADVANCE- KNOWN IN ADVANCE

Dr. Mohler it is beyond the realm of possibility that you and Jarvis Williams and Thomas R. Schreiner  and Denny Burk did not already know what Revoice was to promote in its ideology well in advance of the Revoice July 2018 event in St Louis .Revoice was spawned and incubated at SBTS by one of your CRT/ Intersectionality advocates and operatives.

AFTER the July 2018 event had divided two major congregations with concerns over the movement – you stepped up to condemn Revoice and offer the “final word” on it.

In the August 2nd article you named Collins at least 8-9 times after months of you and your underlings like Burk refusal to name him. BUT alas you never connected Nate Collins to SBTS even though he spent 14  1/2 years there, came “out” as gay in his second year( according to his own social media) ,self identified as gay around campus, obtained a Masters and a Doctorate and taught New Testament at SBTS .Collins father works/worked at SBTS undergrad Boyce College with Burk. Nate Collins write his book and was traveling to St Louis MO the plan Revoice in Fall of 2017  while STILL teaching NT at your SBTS. He wrote his book while working and teaching at SBTS.

SWEEPING REVOICE UNDER THE SBTS RUG

Collins departure from SBTS came in late April or May 2018 just as the Revoice event went public. Nothing is known of this parting but it is unlikely to have been problematic circumstances given that the academic record and pursuits which birthed Revoice were done under your watch Dr. Mohler.

Still you deny Collins was at SBTS by failing to admit- omitting that information from the article below.

Dr. Mohler. Revoice proves that not only CRT and Intersectionality are learned at SBTS – so are gender/ feminine / queer theory . Collins and an unknown number of others (to us) ,  have obtained CHRISTIAN MINISTRY DEGREES in these areas of expertise at your seminary.

THAT IS UNTHINKABLE REALITY 

Dr.Mohler Care to tell us how many other young men and women trained in Collins area of expertise  are out there caring SBTS degrees?

You really cannot hide this Dr.Mohler.  Chickens come home to ROOST at Southern and beyond.

WORLD MAGAZINE RECENTLY SURFACED  INTERVIEW 

Dr. Mohler let’s talk about this interview with Marivn Olasky on Christian Journalism from 2019 which you just retweeted.

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-olasky-interview-albert-mohler/id1470409394?i=1000475816292

 

The Olasky Interview: Albert MohlerThe Olasky Interview

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Albert Mohler is a theologian and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. On this episode of The Olasky Interview, Marvin Olasky and Albert Mohler discuss WORLD’s approach to Christian journalism. Plus, Mohler fields questions from WORLD staffers.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800414557827

CRT and Intersectionality explained by secular academia

Dr Mohler, you and Marvin Olasky talk about  being “Christian Journalist” and your own history as one. You inform the audience you are on the board of World Magazines publisher. Interesting to know that . Dr. Mohler your on everyone’s Board, especially Christian media outlets.

In this interview from World’s Annual Retreat in late 2019 you mention several interesting facts including that Danny Akin who is President of SEBTS was formerly your VP at SBTS. You talk about the fact his “middle son who was so mischievous as a boy ” was recently appointed to the Billy Graham Center at SBTS.

When we look around the landscape in the SBC we see a lot of this advancement of next generation promotions. You seem proud of it based on your boast of the Akin lineage. There is a word for this kind of “insider trading “. NEPOTISM is not something we should feel comfortable or boastful about in the SBC.

It has really become so obvious it is shameful.

THE DALLAS STATEMENT AND YOU

Dr. Mohler you speak with Olasky and the audience about the Dallas Statement condemning the Social Justice movement in the SBC and conservative evangelical churches. You both agree and disagree with it. You assert in the first that “No one knows who these men are”. But then later say you know them but that “they are not major known figures among evangelical leaders. ..except “… Then you name one name which would be friend John MacArthur but his name sounds like it has  been deleted.

Questions Dr.Mohler

1.Are you at first saying the Dallas Statement came from unidentified people “we do not know who they are” and then later saying you know them? Is this you caught lying about your knowledge of who is behind the DS? Unlikely  but still unclear -since it is implied you were asked to sign it .

2.Are you then saying the DS is unimportant because you and your underlings did not sign it and most of the names are unknown “nobodies ” in the church? That is what this sounds like.

3.Did you target Dr Russell Fuller and others at SBTS for signing the Dallas Statement? Did you threaten people who work at SBTS, as reported, if they signed it?

4. You complain in the Olasky interview mostly about the “Process” of the Dallas Statement saying”This is just not how we do things”. Really? Who is we? You and the people you hold firm controls over and their careers in the SBC?

What is the Process then that you and SBC leaders in your court and on your team use? Is it Dialectic Process, Third Way Process? If there is a problem why not answer it – speak to it- call for prayer on it- repent of it? Why have  a “Process” of “how things are done ” or else is there is another problem that becomes the main problem ..non compliance with the “Process”?

All this “Process ” business and NDAs is just kinda trashy . Some minorities  might call it “white trash trashy” since it is so loaded with racial duplicity.

MORE ON THE DANNY AKIN CLAN IN THE SBC

Dr. Mohler, Danny Akins other son’s look to be climbing the ladder quickly and strategically places as well.

WHAT ABOUT NAPLES FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH?

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/november/fbc-naples-southern-baptist-black-pastor-candidate.html

Dr Mohler -what is this business really all about in Naples ?

Giving Voice to the Accused: Documentary on FBC Naples coming in 2 weeks

A long time SBC pastor steps down to make room for younger blood and then gets booted out of the building and a WOKE SBC  African American from the Executive Committee is brought in for a vote in as Pastor. When he fails to achieve the needed majority vote due to concerns of his ” WOKE ” ideologies and problematic views on homosexuality which echo those of your and Russell Moore ,those who oppose him are accused of being “racist”  and “excommunicated from FBC Naples”

AN SBC MEDIA CIRCUS ENSUES IN NAPLES

Recent interviews with these “excommunicated” FBC Naples Baptist folks are compelling. First question Dr. Mohler, Since when does the SBC operate like the “Church of Rome” and excommunicate our members in such fashion…and for political wranglings over race?

From the article linked CAPSTONE article mentioned above:

“The trailer is notable for a few interesting details. First, some of the former church members pointed out the connection of the Woke younger pastors with Al Mohler. Mohler is president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a candidate for SBC President. We’ve published this map multiple times, but here it is again:”

Dr. Mohler

QUESTION : Was Naples a set up for the SBCs new “Repurposed Credentials Committee to go in and plot search and destroy to further your cause of “Ridding the SBC of the Stain of Racism? – Stain Master/ SBTS guy/ Resolution 9 manipulator and committee chair Curtis Woods gives us strong indication that Naples SBC is just that in his discussion of the “powers” of the “Repurposed Credentials Committee”.

Your “Stain Master” affiliate Curtis Wood description of Committees purpose: “….to field claims against churches in regard to sexual abuse and discrimination based on ethnicity as well as matters such as homosexuality that would call their relationship with the SBC into question.”

WE EVEN HAVE  AN SBC WHISTLE BLOWERS HOT LINE

http://www.bpnews.net/53990/sbc-credentials-committee-establishes-online-submission-portal

“NASHVILLE (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention Credentials Committee has established an online submission portal for reports of a church’s alleged departure from Southern Baptist polity, doctrine or practice.”

Dr Mohler this is getting really “brown shirty-esk “. Baptist  Whistle Blowers hotline ? Really ?

MORE UPDATE IN NAPLES

Now we find another one of the Danny Akin boys placed in at FBC Naples as Interim Pastor

Dr. Jonathan Akin

Interim Senior Pastor
Email Jonathan

https://fbcn.org/about-us/our-staff/

 

ANOTHER AKIN SON DOING JOURNALISTIC DEFLECTION

We find another of the Akin Boys heading Baptist 21 and coordinating with one of the ERLC writers to put out a timely little piece demanding Baptist not read alternative news sources dubbed as “discernment bloggers” and “Critics of the SBC”. This comes out just int time to dovetail with your SBTS deflection interviews of the professors exposed in the Dr. Fuller interviews .

On Critics and the SBC

By Josh Wester

On Critics and the SBC

Baptist 21 just so happens to have another one of Akins sons in place to help with the process of shaming SBC criticism . .. at just the right time

Our Team

“Nathan Akin serves as the Executive Director of Baptist 21 and lives in Wake Forest, NC. Nathan also serves as the Associate Director of the Pillar Church Planting Network.”

MORE OLASKY INTERVIEW SNICKERDOODLING ?

In the Olasky interview you say “Christians need journalism to make them think” .But you also boast about the “power you enjoyed as a Baptist editor to decide what gets published.” Tis a fine line between helping people have the information to think through issues and deciding to withhold or control the flow of information or even manipulate it to mislead people. Dr Mohler, where is it that you draw the line.

In the interview you assert that CRT and Intersectionality need to be condemned  but then point out how intersectionality is “wonderful” for some.

So where is it that you stand on these “tools” given it was your recent hired hands who promote it and use it and played part in/were the forces behind the resolution altered to affirm it? This does not confuse us.It really just  makes Baptist mad that you expect us to let you respond with double speak . You comments on Frankfurt School in the first of the Olasky audience Q and A was a dizzying WORD SALAD  tossed and tortured until it would produce a migraine for anyone attempting to discern what was said. Dr. Mohler , it just looks dishonest and shameful.

EVEN THE SBC “SEX ABUSE SCANDAL” HAS BEEN TURNED INTO MORE POLITICAL POSTURING PRODUCING JUST ANOTHER DOG AND PONY SHOW  COMPLETE WITH CONFERENCE, BOOKS , CURRICULUM,COMMITTEE, AND MORE CONTROLS FOR THE SAME POWERS ON WHOSE WATCH IT ALL OCCURRED.

THE ERLC “CARING WELL” POWER GRAB

Dr. Mohler this just looks like coordinated campaign of controlled information and opposition .It also looks like just one more way to deflect Baptist from knowing the truth about what is really going on- especially in these racial skirmishes in the SBC. Can we ever get to The truth with so much baptist leadership monkeyshines and shenanigans going on? How would that EVER be possible unless someone puts  stop to this dog and pony show, calls in the dogs and shuts down the one trick ponies  and gets repentant and honest and open and transparent?

DR MOHLER IF YOU WANT TO LEAD -HERE IS YOUR CHANCE .

Show humility, repentance and be the first to call out this FALSE DICHOTOMY , especially on race and get back to some real Christian Gospel that transcends race and all other human identity – dump CRT and Intersectionality and truly embrace the proclaiming of “we are all one new man in Christ”. We can boldly preach that real equality begins at the cross – that is the message of the Gospel.

Resolution 9 is just one of many fake posturing efforts to keep the SBC in step with the culture and using the language of bondage called “political correctness”. Jesus is not worried about his church being PC..but  calls it to true holiness and to manifest the love for each other that does not “keep records of wrong “. SBC leaders are trying to calculate calibrate and manipulate compliance TO KEEPING RECORDS and showing false contrition for appearances. Enough. You nor SBTS staff, nor NAMB , nor ERLC, nor The SBC Executive Committee are called to play the Holy Spirit to us. As Baptist you recall, we celebrate the Biblical truth that we are all a nation of kings and priest unto God by the Blood of Jesus.

We need you FAR FAR less than you think. Get over yourselves  and SERVE the Body of Christ.

Lets get the SBC out of “Community Development ” and Faith Based Partnerships, and Immigration Reform, Prison Reform,  dirty Money ,Offshore operators like the Kern Family Foundation.( NOTE : these areas are where diversity and inclusion rhetoric and helping aid social change in the church pays HUGE profits. Grants and government funding abound for these efforts and those who promote them to the church and recruit church and  Christian “buy -in” to ideologies like Community Development as “Outreach”. Note Greear;s Summit Church staffer chosen for the 2019 Resolutions Committee.

http://www.bpnews.net/52308/committee-on-resolutions-named-for-2019-sbc  “Tremayne Manson, associate pastor for community development and outreach, The Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, N.C.”

Lets purge the CORRUPTION  not attack the straw man of racial politics. Lets take the SBC far away from the Social Sciences and the legal fictions of CRT and Critical theories and viewing humanity through the lens of diversity and inclusion and see that we all stand in the same need ..the need of a Savior. No more social change agents among us. Only preachers and teachers of the Word . No more crafted ,mingled and corrupted Neo- Calvinist /TGC/ hogwash in the name of curriculum and church planting .We need to be reminded that “unless the Lord builds the house they are laboring in vain who build it.”

The foundations are going to shake and everything with it that can be shaken will FALL INTO THE ASH HEAP.

Dr.Mohler your life’s work is tainted and corrupted. You are being weighed in the balance and found wanting . Repent and do the first works over again and strengthen those things that remain that are ready to die. SBTS is ready to die and so is the SBC. The opportunity to repent and alter course is a rapidly closing window . The exodus began some time ago. We are not 15 million strong but about a third of that who actually attend on any given Sunday. Covid -19 has taken that number to ZERO. How quickly our cracked foundation is crumbling and yet the biggest concern seems to be about the funding and complying with the laws of man while ignoring the commands of God.

Some have said “Hell is burning while the church sleeps”. The  nation from Georgia to Minneapolis to even Louisville last night …is burning with anger and the seeds of racial division…seeds you have helped plant and water and grow in the SBC and SBTS.

Dr.Mohler the nation is burning while the SBC is divided and in a stupor from your own duplicity.

Dr.Mohler only the Dead Dog has no hope. We are praying you to find your way back to the CROSS.

CONCLUSION?

Dr. Mohler, Can we really reach or establish any meaningful conclusion as long as you do not come clean with fellow Southern baptist and Evangelicals or as long as you are not willing to drop the duplicity, the posturing, and endless propaganda campaigns and dialectic monologues?

We know all too well most of the guys at the core of this discussion and issues are people you have trained and hired and promoted. Baptist do not breath such rarefied air that we can no longer discern our right hand from our left culturally or theologically  nor are we standing in need  of you, or an underling who you trained, to tell us how wrong we are – how we are alienating the culture with our conservative Biblical Values.

We do not need more SBTS trained pastors to divide and split our churches or plant on top of aging congregants hard labors in the faith and call it revitalization. We do not need more bony fingers of of your disciples- many of whom have little or no experience in ministry outside SBTS or another affiliates “hallowed halls” of heady theory training, pointing at us in accusations of critical theory rhetoric.

We have had enough of it. As you said in your Olasky interview about the days leading up to the SBTS liberals purge after the conservative resurgence ..”Baptist were getting tired of it…they had had enough”. Dr. Mohler We are tired of it .We have had enough of your duplicity and doublespeak, political posturing and “Briefings”.

Just come clean on where you really stand. Did you train and then employ Russell Moore for over 25 years and then push his ascent into the ERLC which co-sponsored MLK/50 in the Spring/April  of 2018? Did you bring professors into SBTS  and the SBC who were/are promoting CRT and Intersectionality as “useful tools with the Gospel”? Of course you were because it was men you employ like Curtis Woods in the Resolutions Committee who altered the Resolution 9  from a condemnation of them into an affirmation. Get off it Dr.Mohler . It was you who gave us the Stain Masters and sat in interviews in Dallas with and Jarvis Williams. The biggest problem with RACE in the SBC right now is you and your “leadership”  …offering confused, mingled, compromised doublespeak in the name of leadership.

Come clean and speak honestly. Pick a side soon. And stop dabbling in the mire of your own rhetoric or just retire and go away.

Always welcome your willingness to have a real conversation in a public forum.

Meanwhile consider these simple words of Jesus than need no interpretation :

Matthew 12:33-37

A Tree Known by Its Fruit

33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 Brood[a] of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure [b]of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

 

 

RUSSELL MOORE CELEBRATES GAY ATHEIST ICON/ CHILDREN’S BOOK.

BAPTIST CHIEF ETHICS GURU NEVER FAILS TO EXUDE AFFECTION FOR GAY CULTURE. NOW HE REVEALS HIS LOVE FOR MAURICE SENDAK- HOMOSEXUAL ATHEIST CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR.

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                                          5/24/2020

It is simply beyond time for the Southern Baptist ERLC President Russell Moore to admit his affection for and infatuation for most things homosexual.

Moore’s opening media appearance in 2013 in the Wall Street Journal was in praise of our “gay and lesbian neighbors ” who just needed “to be loved” while ignoring the massive LGBTQ+ agenda targeting marriage and the church during his good friend Barack Obama’s Presidency.

By 2014 Moore was offering an entire new set of talking points and special gay speakers for Baptist and evangelical public  “conversations” . Among those speakers was Sam Allberry the UK gay Anglican who is co-founder of his now repudiated  ministry and website “Living Out “. Living Out (or living as openly gay) features 5 gay priest including Allberry as they pine for male affection and attempt to redefine the churches view on homosexuality. Moore’s ERLC conference in Nashville for 2014 invited a host of pro LGBTQ activist and their highly funded lobbying organizations into the conference and behind closed doors to private meetings with Moore and other Baptist/ERLC leaders.

By 2018 Living Out was introducing an “LGBTQ” Church Inclusion Audit” in meetings with another Russell Moore pal Tim Keller. Living Out tweeted excitedly about a June UK conference in London with Keller whose wife called the LGBTQ Audit “Brilliant” while Living Out also tweeted  about “FOR OUR US AUDIENCE …REVOICE ”  a ST Louis conference pushing LGBTQ flourishing in the church”. Revoice  conference was a new movement which came straight from Moore’s Seminary SBTS by one of it’s New Testament Teachers Nate Collins. While Moore lied to Southern Baptist in June 2018 at the SBC annual  meetings in Dallas about any knowledge of Revoice – many of his ERLC underlings and Fellows were and do endorse Revoice .The rest of this unfolding story and movement is splitting multiple conservative denominations. More on that in articles at this web page as well.

MOORE’S AFFECTIONS FOR GAY ATHEIST CHILDREN’S BOOK

Now Russell Moore gives hardy recommendation and review of a 50 year old children’s book by a homosexual atheist author.

 

Reading in Exile: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are - YouTube

 

 

“Reading in Exile: Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are
In this video, I talk about Maurice Sendak’s classic work for children.”

“LET THE WILD RUMPUS START ” HAS RUSSELL MOORE HOWLING AT THE MOON.

Moore speaks about the author of the popular children’s book Maurice Sendak and a recent DOCUMENTARY FILM -( SEE BELOW REVIEWED BY LGBTQ SOURCES) about him. Moore points out that “the author (Sendak) is maybe bitter and afraid of death, but also really cynical and kind of  jaded …. but there is a lot that is really fascinating  about where his viewpoint is coming from WHEN HE WROTE WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE” . … “my kids loved this book when they were little…. of all the books that we would read this might have been their favorite….. because I would always howl at the moon with them…”  ( Moore makes no mention of the homosexuality or Atheism of Sendak)

(NOTE : A Reader of this article pointed out Moore’s promotion of Sendak in 2012 – this was while he was still provost of SBTS and a year before he took over at the ERLC and was called by boss Albert Mohler” The  Man from Issachar”.

https://www.russellmoore.com/2012/05/08/what-maurice-sendak-can-teach-the-church/?

Russell Moore in 2012 at least points out Sendak’s Atheism and foul mouth but still mutes the fact of  his homosexuality .

“Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn’t seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. After all, he was an atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul mouth. But underneath all of that, I think, Sendak saw something of the fallen glory of the universe we followers of Jesus sometimes ignore.”

THE MAURICE SENDAK DOCUMENTARY – MOORE IS SPEAKING OF :

RUSSELL MOORE COULD NOT HAVE MISSED HIS CELEBRATED HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY.

Tell Them Anything
You Want: A Portrait
of Maurice Sendak

HIGH PRAISE FOR THE SENDAK DOCUMENTARY FROM LGBTQ MOVIE GUIDES 

Cover ArtTell them Anything you Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

MORE REVIEWS

 

https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Tell-Them-Anything-You-Want-A-Portrait-of-Maurice-Sendak/70129331

“The unconventional creator of iconic children’s books Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen is given an equally idiosyncratic look in this diary-style documentary from directors Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs. In a series of conversations conducted over several years, Maurice Sendak is alternately reticent and forthcoming about his inspirations, his family history and what he’d like to accomplish in the future.”

 

 STILL MORE REVIEWS
“LGBTQ art heroes continues with Maurice Sendak. It would be hard pressed to find someone who’s childhood wasn’t touched by his charming art. Famous for “Where the Wild Things Are” he illustrated many books throughout his life. He lived with his partner Eugene Glynn for 50 years.”
“His rough childhood was complicated by his closeted homosexuality. Ironically, Sendak died just days before Barack Obama’s historic pronouncement in support of gay marriage, although it’s hard to say if that would have affected his attitude. “I’ve always seen it as a dangerous, interloping thing,” he says with a sigh. “I missed a lot of fun.”
MORE  ON SENDAK’S HOMOSEXUALITY
“That said, to my way of thinking there is one thing missing in Cott’s otherwise comprehensive discussions of the book: how Sendak’s story takes up his identity as a gay male, albeit in a deeply symbolic way. It isn’t that Cott was unaware of Sendak’s sexuality. Indeed, in his lengthy introduction, he provides a sympathetic overview: noting how Sendak was in a long-term relationship with Eugene Glynn, his partner of fifty years, and how he didn’t come out until a 2008 interview in the New York Times when he was eighty years old. As for why he was closeted for so long, Sendak offered a tortured if familiar reason: “All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.”
“But another reason Sendak concealed his sexual identity was his worry that the public might turn on him if they learned that he was a gay man writing children’s books. It was a reasonable worry at the time. Indeed, while Sendak’s sexual orientation was widely known among his friends, we didn’t talk about it in public. That’s why Sendak was especially hurt and angered by John Updike’s 1976 New York Times review of his pictures for Randall Jarrell’s Fly by Night. Updike’s words — “nudity is unspecified in the text but looms specific in Sendak’s illustrations, one of which shows a prepubescent penis and another a rather inviting derriere” — seemed a crude attempt to “out” Sendak. Fear of reprisal from this type of innuendo was further evidence of the need for gay children’s authors to remain closeted.”
“This, more or less, was the social climate in which Outside Over There was written. It will not be surprising, then, that the book’s treatment of issues such as sexual orientation was deeply submerged. Moreover, Outside Over There, in its own secretive and symbolic way, was Sendak’s most personal book; he called it an “excavation of my soul.”
“Twenty-eight years after the publication of Outside Over There, the world was different and an eighty-year-old Sendak could proudly come out. And now, in retrospect, the story can be seen as one chapter in Sendak’s biography as a gay male.”
AGAIN
“….Sendak could proudly come out. And now, in retrospect, the story can be seen as one chapter in Sendak’s biography as a gay male. “

MORE ON THE IMPACT OF SENDAK IF YOUR NOT PERSUADED

https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=five-gay-picture-book-prodigies-and-the-difference-theyve-made

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012)

“Sendak drew feelings — first and last, the feelings of small children. Over the years his subjects ranged from nursery-rhyme characters to life in a Polish shtetl to heroic nudes and portrait heads, but his work is grounded in 
the life force of the young, girls and boys alike.”

AHoleIsToDig_straightened“Unisexism, or gender equivalence, showed its face — maybe for the first time on record — in A Hole Is to Dig (1952), where Sendak’s drawings illustrate Ruth Krauss’s collection of kids’ off-the-cuff definitions. Along with “A hole is to dig,” in multiple embodiments, we find the indelible “Eyebrows are to go over your eyes” and “The world is to have something to stand on.”

“Think of that! On his first try, Sendak had girls and boys doing what each was “supposed” to do. Krauss, a progressive thinker, pointed out that young kids didn’t behave that way and, according to Sendak, he made a few changes to eliminate the stereotypes. Altogether, he did more than that: there are no sex roles whatever in the pair-ups or group scenes, and no pat tableaux as a consequence. In an independent jacket drawing, moreover, one little boy holds a bouquet of flowers for another to sniff.”

“A Hole Is to Dig, small but mighty, liberated little girls from dolls-and-doilies more than ten years before Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique touched off the second wave of American feminism — and, along the way, freed little boys from being he-men.”

MOORE DEFENDS THE BOOK AGAINST DETRACTORS

Moore offers his “insight ” into the books plots and answers some of it’s critics but NEVER mentions that the books author is a well know homosexual and an Atheist. Still Russell Moore pathetically attempts to put a GOSPEL SPIN on one of his “favorite children’s books. ”

MOORE IS NOT THE ONLY BAPTIST SEMINARY PROVOST (FORMERLY MOORE WAS PROVOST AT MOHLER’S SBTS ) WITH A FIXATION ON A GAY ATHEIST WRITER 

SEBTS PROVOST ,ERLC FELLOW, KERN/ SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADER ENDORSES REVOICE FOUNDER & PROMOTES BISEXUAL ATHEIST PHILOSOPHER

SEBTS PROVOST BRUCE ASHFORD ACADEMIC FOCUS IN HIS DISSERTATION AND MANY OTHER WRITINGS IS GAY ATHEIST PHILOSOPHER LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN .

“Ashford’s ETS presentation 2007 on Wittgenstein -who is also the topic of his SEBTS doctoral dissertation .”

SKELETONS IN MOORE’S BOOK SHELF

What other skeletons lurk in the bookshelves of Russell Moore – the head of the SBC’s ERLC? Do we really want Moore recommending books for our children? What about his unchecked influence on your pastors in training at SBC seminaries like SBTS where Moore taught under mentor Albert Mohler for over 20 years?

Reading in Exile: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are - YouTube

SIMPLE QUESTION

IN CONCLUSION-

WHERE DOES THE AFFECTION FOR GAY CULTURE END WITH RUSSELL MOORE AND HIS BAPTIST BRETHREN ?

EPHESIANS 5:

WALK IN THE LIGHT

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:

 

“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”

Walk in Wisdom

15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

 

 

APOSTASY RISING:WHY YOU SHOULD NOT RETURN TO YOUR CHURCH

IF YOU ARE MEMBER OF A CHURCH WHICH AFFILIATES WITH THE GOSPEL COALITION OR IT’S VIRAL FELLOW ORGANIZATIONS YOU SHOULD SEEK A NEW CHURCH HOME.
Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                 5/11/2020
Sanctuaries have been empty as Christians the world over have been unable to attend their churches for around 8 weeks now. For some it has been even longer. However in this period of church lock outs many have returned to family devotions, personal Bible study and prayer. That is a wonderful “trend”. Still another GREAT opportunity exist for those concerned with the leftward drift of the church. After the Covid-19 shut down and lock out ..it is time to find a new church NOT INFECTED  with the virus of The Gospel Coalition and it’s affiliates.
Coronavirus PANDEMIC RESPONSE  and overreach which forced the shutdown of church meetings could be a great opportunity to move on from the RISING APOSTASY in churches affiliated with these errors.
REALITY CHECK -If you do not return, in the end, the only thing they may miss is your money.

 FROM TGC Podcast SITE

“The Gospel Coalition Podcast features keynote and breakout sessions from our national, regional, and women’s conferences.”

TGC : THE EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE VIRUS 

Since this writer first named the subversive forces at work in the church as the “EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE” in 2015 -the concept of the workings and goals of such an organization behind the scenes manipulating the church has become a regular theme of writers and alternative media. The church is under assault from within. Make no mistake. Forces from outside the House of God are bearing down upon it HEAVILY. TGC is not the ONLY  culprit yet-NO OTHER ORGANIZATION illustrates or reveals the presence of the Evangelical Deep State like The Gospel Coalition. It is ruining the churches…yours, mine, ours and if you are in a TGC church you need to get your family OUT OF IT.

(PERSONAL NOTE: I have been researching and writing these articles since about 2013/2014 when we discovered these corruptions manifesting in our own church and it’s Christian School. The church had been known for evangelism and discipleship and its conservative biblical stand on social issues for decades. My wife grew up there and graduated from its Christian school.
We had a 2 year old son and were thinking of sending him to the same school. We made our first mistake in assuming the church was the same one my wife had grown up in and came to faith under as a child. We were wrong. The church had come under the leadership of a John MacArthur ( a TGC /T4G leader) /Master’s College & Seminary Board member and pastor for a number of years. The conservative evangelistic founding pastor was retired. The doctrines now central to the church were Neo -Calvinism,, Community Development, (the pastor had already split the church attempting to implement Purpose Driven errors.) and Elder Rule. Unknown to most in the church- it’s pastor had joined The Gospel Coalition. The first time visitor packets now contained John Piper books and Tim Keller propaganda.EVERYTHING WAS CHANGING RAPIDLY.
The church had converted by 2011 (just before we sadly wandered back through it’s doors) from congregational led to “Elder Rule” using the TGC/ MacArthur models including Church Covenants and severely altered bylaws. Unaware of the deep affiliations and assuming the best based on the stated vision and messaging of the new style leadership – we joined . We simply were thinking we would educate our son there and carefully disciple him in spite of the obvious Neo-Calvinist influences. We did  not know nor were we informed of the churches TGC membership. Virtually no one in the church outside the elders and pastors knew of TGC affiliation. We intended to disciple our son without contaminating him with Neo-Calvinism and still find some stability for our family in what we thought the church and school still represented. Little did we know how impossible that simple intention would be.
What followed for my wife and son was a front line discovery of how problematic, deceptive, abusive, heavy handed, scheming, delusional, coordinated, complicit, corrupt, intentional, organized, manifold, far reaching, unbiblical, greedy, and unsavory the entire church vision, it’s leadership/staff/elders had become once INFECTED with the virus known as THE GOSPEL COALITION. Sparing the details of our experience I will provide below the realities of what TGC has and is doing to your church/ to all our churches and WHY you should not return AFTER THE COVID-19 CHURCH SHUT OUT.  ALL of these assertions are well documented on this site in the years of research that followed.

TGC CHURCHES ARE FILLED WITH CHANGE AGENTS

The Gospel Coalition was founded in 2006 by Tim Keller and D.A. Carson. It has many affiliated organizations, ministries, big name preachers, and planting organizations On the surface it appears to be just another virtual preacher frat house PROMOTING  their ideology. But their influence in the seminaries, Christian media,and across denominational lines make TGC the perfect breeding ground for the viral infection of Neo-Calvinism and it’s politics and change agent agenda.
MAKE NO MISTAKE TGC vision is and has always been to change the church.
It’s doctrines serve to spread its real CONTAGION – PROGRESSIVE POLITICS  and EMERGENT Christianity ERROR. In TGC conferences, publications and social media the ideologies of the group have spread like Coronavirus on a CDC computer model. Once Young Restless and Reformed, now middle-aged spokesperson for TGC ,Collin Hansen explained the political and social change /change agent agenda of TGC and why it was founded in this March 6th 2018 interview with ABC’s UN-Comfortable program.
— — Collin Hansen says he’s watched with confusion as leaders from his evangelical Christian community staunchly defend President Donald Trump.”“You used to think morality is important. Now, morality is not important. You used to think repentance is important,” said Hansen. “President Trump says that he’s never had anything to ask forgiveness for. I mean it is very confusing.”

“For the Alabama-based editorial director of the Gospel Coalition, a network of evangelical churches in America, the head-scratching has now given way to alarm. Hansen believes the inability of public figures like Jerry Falwell Jr. and Tony Perkins to maintain their moral credibility by continuing to defend offensive or un-Christian behavior by Trump is a threat to the church itself.”

TGC IS  -MIDDLE-AGED AGNST AGAINST AGING CONSERVATIVE PARENTS POLITICS

Bottom line revealed in the interview is that Collin Hansen confirmed TGC exists because it answers the “bad” politics of the church which allowed it’s members to elect someone like President Donald Trump. Follow closely and you we see the interviewer set up the play for Hansen to spike the ball in this revealing interview on the political and change agent agenda of TGC.
The arrogance of TGC’s assumptions of self importance are glaring. TGC was designed to fuel and facilitate the rebellion of your progressive /post modern Christian CHILDREN to the “outmoded ” Christianity of their aging parents and transform their churches to fit the new hipster/ hip hop / relevant “communities “the next -gen crave. Churches are being made over in the image of TGC.
FEW pastors are isolated from the pervasive infectious influences of TGC.

TGC CHURCHES ARE FILLING THE CHURCH / SAINTS WITH FALSE DOCTRINES & IDEOLOGIES

Just to name a few without EXPLAINING here. These issues have been documented in the many articles and research provided on this site and others.

NEO-CALVINISM
SOCIAL JUSTICE GOSPEL- A CALL TO FACILITATING EQUITY
REVOICED -AN LGBTQ THRIVING IN THE CHURCH
DOMINIONISM
CRITICAL THEORY / RACE THEORY/ GENDER THEORY/QUEER THEORY IN SEMINARIES
RACE BAITING IN THE NAME OF RECONCILIATION
IMMIGRATION OPEN BORDERS PRO-ISLAM MASKED AS COMPASSION FOR REFUGEES
FAITH BASED PARTNERSHIPS -GOVERNMENT AND FOUNDATION CHURCH GRANTS
(FEMA, HHS, HUD, DHLS, AND MORE IN LONG TERM PARTNERSHIPS WITH TGC CHURCHES.)
ONGOING FUNDING FROM GOVERNMENT & PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS
COMMUNITARIANISM- ALL FOR THE “COMMON GOOD” AND “HUMAN FLOURISHING”
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES THROUGH THE CHURCH
ANTI-NATIONALISM- AMERICA LAST BUT MAKE SURE TO WRITE THE CHECK IN US DOLLARS.
IDOLATRY OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY.ROOTED IN FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY.
(YOUR TGC CULT LIKE CHURCH IS “YOUR REAL FAMILY”)
PRO- ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE /WHILE WEAKENING PRO-LIFE FOCUS
ALL THESE ERRORS AND MORE ARE BEING PACKAGED AS THE GOSPEL CALLING AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH IN TGC AND AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS .

TGC FOUNDER KELLER FLIRTY ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE LEFT.

TGC founder Tim Keller has shown a cherished relationship to the left. He lauds the “biblical values ” reflected in the social justice policies of the Democratic Party platform. Keller took two of his disciples to the Obama White House in 2012 promising to aid in bringing the churches into”Good Faith” cooperation with Obama’s radical second term goals. Keller’s meeting and his role as a modern day Balaam (the false prophet who helped a wicked king ensnare the people of God during their wilderness wanderings) with Obama are recounted in a book by the same name.

Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme 

 

THE NEW RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

TGC churches follow the political engagement of “religious ethics experts” like another modern day Balaam -Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Moore has been in his seat as President of the ERLC since 2013 which is the same time that massive amounts of funding from outside the church solidified  it’s inroads into the church via the seminaries.

MOORE AND LGBTQ REVOICING THE CONVERSATION

Moore is pro -Revoice , letting his underlings promote and work with LGBTQ  thriving in the historically conservative churches like his own SBC and  conservative PCA .He even hosted the 2014 event changing the entire conversation and response to LGBTQ just months before gay marriage became the law of the land. Most of the current herd of Same Sex desiring/ bemoaning change agents in TGC were brought into the conversation by Russell Moore and his mentor TGC leader Albert Mohler of SBTS BY 2014.

MOORE THE TGC RACE BAITER

Moore promotes radical racial “reconciliation ” with TGC in meetings like the TGC/ERLC cosponsored MLK/50 event in Memphis where Critical Race Theory, White Guilt, Privilege Repentance , and redistribution /reparations were promoted as “Gospel Issues”. Moore accused Southern Christians as being guilty  of the worship of “Jim Crow as Jesus”.

MOORE -MORE MUSLIMS IN WESTWARD EXPANSION

Russell Moore is pro open borders immigration working with the Evangelical Immigration Round Table of National Immigration Forum with Obama Era leaders and the funding of billionaires like Soros , Paul Singer (also massive LGBTQ funder) Ebay founder progressive Muslim, Pierre Omidyar. The plight of the Muslim “Refugee” is the welcome mat for massive funding for “refugee resettlement” for organizations like World Vision and World Relief and for Moore’s own SBC domestic and foreign missions arms NAMB and IMB.

MOORE AND MO MONEY

Moore, like Balaam, has no problem  with taking funds from these modern day seducers. Being a friend and agent of Balak is still as profitable as it ever was. Despite the obvious damage done to both culture and Christian faith in Europe form years of pro Islamic immigration policies there- our Balaam Moore is teaching leaders here in the art of seduction of American Christians. TGC churches have drunk deep of this lavishly deceptive kool-aide.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES CHAMPION MAY AS WELL BE JUDAS ISCARIOT

Moore’s policies and politics are birthing a whole new vision of Religious Liberty wed with, shaped, redefined, and subordinated to LGBTQ ” RIGHTS”, Islamic proliferation, economic/social  equity ALL assuring protections for everyone’s Religious Liberty “in a pluralistic society”. Moore is a Democrat, former staffer for a Democratic Congressman in Mississippi and is very close to the Obama Administration and NOW Obama  Foundation operatives like Michael Wear. Wear is also a “TGC thought leader”.

The progressive “& Campaign” and the Interfaith Dialog “Neighborly Faith ” both have TGC and ERLC leadership involved. The NEW  political tone and call for CIVILITY  and PLURALISM  are all carefully designed to move the church left politically and paint Christian Religious Liberty into a tiny corner subjected to the definitions and boundaries of it’s most ardent opposition like LGBTQ Equality, Social Equity and Islam .

REVELATION 2:14 

“But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.”

TGC CHURCHES ABUSE AUTHORITY

PLURALITY OF “RULING ELDERS”
Elder Rule is touted as THE Biblical model for church leadership. Like our own former church, TGC congregants are encouraged to surrender leadership of the church from the congregation to selected- “elected” elder board who make the decisions about hiring staff, vision casting, finances, debt, expansion, etc FOR the church and then present them for “CONGREGATIONAL AFFIRMATION “.Such men are presented as beyond questioning in their integrity in spite of the many failings of TGC elders /church leaders to address openly lustful and adulterous pastors, child sexual abuse cover ups and financial mis-dealings by their stable of leaders.
POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT OUR WAY OR NO WAY
TGC leader’s like Mark Dever  and editor underling Jonathan Leeman and their affiliated organizations like 9MARKS – FOCUS HEAVILY ON  planting churches with a “plurality of elders”. In multiple “conversations ” Dever and Leeman discuss the need for the elders to help shape the political engagement and even advise congregants on how to vote. Leeman’s  2018 Book on the subject is used repeatedly to reinforce this effort, as do a host of other TGC writers. TGC leader Thabiti Anyabwile recent “Just Gospel ” conference, part of his Front Porch outreach, shamelessly promotes the same Third Way politics of the TGC political chorus .
ARBITRATION ABUSES
Converting to Elder Rule means rewriting the bylaws of the church. These bylaws are carefully crafted to secure control of the church. They establish a POWER GRID and entrench elders to run the church and control any and all opposition. The abuses of this are rampant and the victims now litter the evangelical landscape. Members of these TGC churches have no options but to submit…or else . Institutions like the seminaries are under similar tyrannical authoritarian models including requirement of Non Disclosure Agreements  (NDAs) which enforce and ensure silence on the part of the institutions abused victims.
Question anything and YOU  are the problem. Failure to remain quiet after your concerns are expressed to the appropriate leadership and you WILL be fast tracked into   arbitration and eventual church discipline. This will lead to EXCOMMUNICATION and PUBLIC SHAMING, calls for you to be SHUNNED by congregants and other Christians and you will remain “under discipline” until you show public repentance for questioning the authority of the RULING ELDERS  in your TGC church. They proactively call for your church to shun and shame you and spread the word to other churches in your city and region to shame- shun and deny you membership and even communion.
Sound Catholic? It is…and DEMONIC!
Plus these new  bylaws and documents like Church Covenants for new members are carefully crafted by TGC thinkers to sound Biblical and theologically astute and accurate. BUT they are also crafted by attorneys and are designed to allow for the excessive power grab of the Ruling Elders making them the “only legal members of the church ” while  insulating them from lawsuits.
The New Testament church did not consult Attorneys to design bylaws and covenants  did they?  NO. SHOULD it ? NEVER !
ARBITRATION IS THE END OF THE ROAD FOR YOU IF YOU WILL NOT ALLOW LEGITIMATE CONCERNS TO BE BURIED – AND ARE “DISCIPLINED” BY YOUR RULING ELDERS.
Many organizations “train ” and “coach”elder leaders in the “process of conciliation ” and arbitration which the member has already agreed to WHEN signing the church covenant designed by the church attorney. ZERO options exist.
MANY newly affiliated TGC churches are even requiring long time or lifetime members to go back through some MEMBERSHIP PROTOCOLS simply to ensure the signatures are on the church covenants to empower the elder RULE. Several churches in this authors area have split over this TGC practice .
Admittedly many churches have elder rule models that have been based on purely Biblical principle and guidelines. BUT these models did not require such heavy handed application, attorney involvement or arbitration agreements.
YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS BIBLICAL BY WRAPPING BIBLE VERSES AROUND IT .

THE “ARBITRATION INDUSTRY “

Samples of some church arbitration organizations:
BOTTOM LINE- Submit to the TGC powers or you are a “bad Christian”. Any show of Frustration that arises from the heavy handed authority or circular process ,once manifested, proves that you and your attitude of depression or anger is in fact the problem. The real concerns are then buried in the process and you may be “suicidal if depressed” with the process or “homicidal if angry” with the process.
One organization- Peacemakers even has a METER gauging your response for proof that intervention is needed. It is a railroaded process that will make the concerned believers head spin leaving them wondering how they found themselves in arbitration and under elder threats for simply expressing legitimate concern.
NOT ONLY are the legal thinkers involved in the development of these conciliation ministries and process BUT psychology , sociology and profiling from the social sciences play a MAJOR ROLE IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT. Virtually every response is anticipated and accounted for except for those refusing to fear false authority and who have caught the ruling elders and staff in as many lies as possible.At this point the usurpers rely on the last possible tools to silence the opposition …they LIE.
CHURCH COVENANTS  ARE A LICENSE TO ABUSE :DON’T SIGN ONE EVER !
LAWYERS DRAFT THESE BYLAWS AND COVENANTS … NOT SCRIPTURE.
Note : It has been pointed out that many churches in the TGC circles operate like Scientology and are VERY “CULT LIKE” in their demands for control and arbitration
CRITICISM OF PEACEMAKER /ARBITRATION FROM SOME VICTIMS OF IT

TGC CHURCH PASTORS ARE  GRADUATES OF INFECTED SEMINARIES

The money, ideology, methodology behind the deconstruction of the Seminaries is detailed at length HERE:

The affiliated Seminaries and Christian Colleges are listed here in one of the funding organizations which oversee it’s curriculum and social justice agenda .
IF YOU SEE THE CONCERNS WITH TGC INFLUENCE- THEN YOU DO NOT WANT TO HIRE STAFF FROM OR BE MEMBERS OF A CHURCH WITH GRADUATES OF THESE INSTITUTIONS IN RECENT YEARS.

TGC CHURCHES HAVE MASS MEDIA AND CURRICULUM IN THEIR CONTROL

Christianity Today is just one example of the pervasive influence of TGC on /in Christian media. Most outlets are saturated, Keep them around only as alternative to the next pandemic inspired RUN ON TOILET PAPER . It might be useful then like the Sears and Roebuck Catalog during the Depression.

LIFEWAY  and other curriculum providers affiliated with TGC .as well as TGCs own massive curriculum studies  play a key role in indoctrination  of the flock with their materials. BURN IT!

TGC HAS DEVOURED TWO MAJOR DENOMINATIONS- SBC AND PCA

TGC has proliferated along side the Neo-Reformed movement in the Southern Baptist Convention and Presbyterian Church of America . Both were once social conservative and evangelistic. NOW these two denominations have experienced  near total saturation as have their missions organizations and educational institutions and media. MOST if not all of the well known and influential pastors in these denominations are TGC leadership council members. SUGGESTION-TURN OFF THEIR BROADCAST AND BURN THEIR BOOKS.

TGC CHURCH PLANTING :WHY YOUR CHURCH MAY NOT MATTER AT ALL.

TGC REVITALIZATION – PLANTING ON TOP OF YOUR CHURCH & OWNING IT’S ASSETS
If your church has allowed one of the TGC planting organizations like ACTS 29/ 9MARKS / Embers to Flames / Send Network/ or any other TGC affiliated planting organization to sell it’s vision of revitalization to your church THEN your church is now part of the TGC ideology. Get OUT of it. LEAVE. DON’T RETURN

TGC/KELLER AND STETZER GOING AFTER YOUR 4-14 YEAR OLD IN THE 4/14 WINDOW

This is the most criminal activity of all TGC leaders like Tim Keller and Ed Stetzer and their many brainwashed and indoctrinated disciples. Besides going after the hearts and minds of your adult children in the Christian Universities and Seminaries with SOCIALIST  ECONOMICS of Faith and Work and Global Goals of the UN , their target groups also include much much younger audience .

https://www.theologyofwork.org/the-high-calling/daily-reflection/do-you-know-about-414-window

This is ” A MILL STONE OFFENSE”.

These LEADERSHIP OF TGC are promoting the targeting of your 4-14 year old children and grandchildren right under your noses- with your tithe money IN YOUR OWN CHURCH.

(NOTE: Our son was given the TGC affiliated curriculum of Ed Stetzer in preschool class at our former church .It is called  The Gospel Project and is laced with TGC ideology.)

TGC CHURCHES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ECONOMICS -FAITH AND WORK HERESY

TGC IS ROBBING YOUR PASTORS OF THEIR CALLING AND THE GOSPEL WHILE ROBBING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY OF YOUR CHURCH, YOUR FAITH , YOUR FUNDS AND YOUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE

CONCLUSION : MONEY INSPIRES THE VISION

TGC IS A THEOLOGICALLY EMERGENT -PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OUT TO MOVE YOU AND YOUR CHURCH LEFTWARD POLITICALLY.
The flood of money into the denominational organizations, missions and educational institutions is enormous. A vast network of private foundations exist willing to both accelerate the churches leftward drift and co opt it’s assets ,human and  financial, for their vision. They CARE NOT for your Christian faith or the WORD  of God BUT they do desire to both remove forces like the churches Biblical conviction which hinder their global visions and are willing to harness them if possible into an APOSTATE CHURCH  that will ultimately be a part of FURTHERING  the unthinkable / anti-christ vision they pursue.
THE GOSPEL COALITION IS AN AGENT OF APOSTASY.
ABANDON IT AND ITS BASTARD / ILLEGITIMATE  OFFSPRING.
REVELATION 17

3″ So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.

6 “I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.”

15 “Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. 16 And the ten horns which you [g]saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”